We are on the verge of major breakthroughs. … I can foresee now an end to legal inequality based on sexual orientation and gender equality some time in my lifetime.

—Rep. Barney Frank, who is serving his 17th term in Congress and celebrated his 70th birthday this week, and has an estimated 13.55 years left to live, thinks Obama’s recent DOMA decision and the coming repeal of DADT is the biggest indicators that today’s institutional discrimination will be a memory sooner rather than later [via]

And all on Obama’s watch. Fancy that u impatient morons. This guy is pure gold, shut up and let him do his work.

Mar 3, 2011 at 11:00 am · @Reply ·

kernelt

I too believe that…

Mar 3, 2011 at 11:00 am · @Reply ·

Damon

Emily Pankhurst and Martin Luther King are both dead and there’s still discrimination against blacks and women.

Jus’ sayin’.

Mar 3, 2011 at 11:21 am · @Reply ·

GetBalance

Damon——-Barney said “legal inequality” not all inequality. On that point he is most likely correct if he lives out a natural lifetime w/o incident.

Mar 3, 2011 at 11:52 am · @Reply ·

Fitz

I hope I am wrong, but I ain’t seeing it.

Mar 3, 2011 at 11:58 am · @Reply ·

justiceontherocks

I hope he’s right and believe that he is. But it will come through the courts, not legislation, especially at the state level.

That said, I wish he would get the hell out of Congress. His sucking up to Fannie Mae helped put the economy in shambles.

Mar 3, 2011 at 12:06 pm · @Reply ·

Kieran

Actually the median life expectancy for men in the US is 75. Hopefully Barney will live much longer than that, but there’s still no time to lose.

Mar 3, 2011 at 2:26 pm · @Reply ·

Harbo

I’ve gotta believe. Obama rocks!!

Mar 3, 2011 at 4:19 pm · @Reply ·

mjcc1987

Hope I’m wrong, but the intense hate from the right along with them wining elections tells me Barney is wrong and we are in for a very tough decade. I don’t see SCOTUS supporting us either and may very well institutionalize homophobia.

Mar 3, 2011 at 7:40 pm · @Reply ·

Oprah

Yeah, right. and i can envision a US gay president in the near future. Oh wait, maybe a Bisexual president?–like Biracial Obama?Glen Beck?